MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Just Bill]

Edgewood beats Lakeland 80-72. Faurote scores 25 points.

[Just Bill]

Crickets in here...

Here's UWRF's tournament page with live stats and live video links...

http://www.uwrfsports.com/sports/2012/2/29/MBB_0229124701.aspx?path=mbball

[WLCALUM83]

Crickets in here...

I'll temporarily scatter them, JB:  Go, Edgewood!

[WLCALUM83]

BadgerFan42, myself and all the other NAthCon followers breathe a collective sigh of releief:

Edgewood 75, UW-River Falls 67  (WI Eagles once had a 24-point lead in the 2nd half of this game, --but the homestanding squad made things quite interesting toward the end).

[NACfan215]

Big win for Edgewood and for the NAC against #17 River Falls

EC came out strong in the second half looking to be easily walking away with the game and being up by as many as 24 before RF went on a run to close it to 5 with under a minute to play.  But clutch free throws gave EC the big win.

[Gregory Sager]

Congrats to the NAthCon upon its first-ever D3 tourney win!

I think that this was also the first-ever tourney win by a member of the old Lake Michigan Conference. Aurora and Benedictine have won D3 tourney games in the past under the auspices of the old NIIC.

[d3fan1515]

agreed, big win for not only EC, but the NAC as well!

[NCF]

Congrats to the NAC for the breaking the ice and getting that first win.

[BadgerFan42]

It's never too early to start talking about next year, any predictions?

Lakeland will be extremely tough next year, CUW and Edgewood will be transitioning, Marian will be young, but more experienced.

The South will be another mess, plenty of talent returns, Aurora/BU/Rockford/Possibly Dominican will all battle for 1st place


Kansas/Kentucky National Championship:  Kansas wins it all

[BadgerFan42]

It's never too early to start talking about next year, any predictions?

Lakeland will be extremely tough next year, CUW and Edgewood will be transitioning, Marian will be young, but more experienced.

The South will be another mess, plenty of talent returns, Aurora/BU/Rockford/Possibly Dominican will all battle for 1st place


Kansas/Kentucky National Championship:  Kansas wins it all

[NCF]

It's never too early to start talking about next year, any predictions?

Lakeland will be extremely tough next year, CUW and Edgewood will be transitioning, Marian will be young, but more experienced.

The South will be another mess, plenty of talent returns, Aurora/BU/Rockford/Possibly Dominican will all battle for 1st place


Kansas/Kentucky National Championship:  Kansas wins it all

[hickory_cornhusker]

Maranatha will be leaving the conference after the 2012-2013. They will remain in Division III as an independent. The press release mentions finding a new conference but I don't know where. Is the UMAC, who just lost Presentation a possibility?

http://northernac.org/releases/20120517mbbcw

What will the NAthCon do now that men's basketball is down to eleven members. Do you play a five team division or go just an eleven team free for all?

[RFMichigan]

Maranatha will be leaving the conference after the 2012-2013. They will remain in Division III as an independent. The press release mentions finding a new conference but I don't know where. Is the UMAC, who just lost Presentation a possibility?

http://northernac.org/releases/20120517mbbcw

What will the NAthCon do now that men's basketball is down to eleven members. Do you play a five team division or go just an eleven team free for all?

Just saw that. I think it was a matter of time before it happened. I actually talked to someone who mentioned that Maranatha wanted to withdraw from the league a few years ago, but for whatever reason it didn't happen at that time.

I think that the NAC would like to keep an even number of teams for basketball, but I don't know from where they'd poach a team. Maybe the mention in the General DIII Issues board about IIT should bear interest.

Illinois Tech doesn't have football (Maranatha did - the NAC will only have seven teams after the 2012 season) and they would have to re-establish basketball, but geographically they make sense. I don't know if there are any other current DIII teams in other conferences that are looking to jump ship - someone out there I'm sure knows more about this than I - but this might create an opportunity. 

[hickory_cornhusker]

Maranatha will be leaving the conference after the 2012-2013. They will remain in Division III as an independent. The press release mentions finding a new conference but I don't know where. Is the UMAC, who just lost Presentation a possibility?

http://northernac.org/releases/20120517mbbcw

What will the NAthCon do now that men's basketball is down to eleven members. Do you play a five team division or go just an eleven team free for all?

Just saw that. I think it was a matter of time before it happened. I actually talked to someone who mentioned that Maranatha wanted to withdraw from the league a few years ago, but for whatever reason it didn't happen at that time.

I think that the NAC would like to keep an even number of teams for basketball, but I don't know from where they'd poach a team. Maybe the mention in the General DIII Issues board about IIT should bear interest.

Illinois Tech doesn't have football (Maranatha did - the NAC will only have seven teams after the 2012 season) and they would have to re-establish basketball, but geographically they make sense. I don't know if there are any other current DIII teams in other conferences that are looking to jump ship - someone out there I'm sure knows more about this than I - but this might create an opportunity.

I remember when Roosevelt University in Chicago restarted athletics a couple of years ago they said their ultimate goal was Division III. They were going to join the NAIA to get their program off the ground and then jump. Now I haven't heard if they are still planning to join Division III and if they are when. They also do not have football.

[Just Bill]

Adrian resigns from Edgewood College to go to Otterbein...

http://www.edgewoodcollegeeagles.com/news/2012/5/22/MBB_0522125816.aspx